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1 know anything about. The curculio only helps thin them out. What 

 European plums can we raise in this country that the curculio does not 

 bother? 



Professor Beach: I do not want to give information about varieties, 

 but speak of one variety that came from the western nurseries, which 

 in color and shape is something like Wild Goose, but is better in flavor, 

 that is, th:> Chas. Downing. I would like to get your opinion as to its 

 productiveness. It belongs to the native class. 



Mr. Hobbs: It was In cultivation ten or fifteen years ago in parts 

 of the couutrj^ and west, but it seems to have di'opped out in recent 

 years. 



Mr. Howser: The little Blue Damson is the only one I can ever make 

 any money out of. It is not what I regard a fine plum, but they are a 

 great yielder and they will sell. 



Mr. Kingsbury: I was just going to ask in regard to that var-iety, 

 whether they are not also subject to black knot— more so than any other 

 plum ? 



Mr. Rowland: I have been growing it for more than forty years, 

 and I uow have some fifty trees of it, and in the forty years I do not 

 think I have gathered wood enough that had black knot on it, that I could 

 not grasp and put in a cook stove. All diseased wood should be burned 

 when cut off. However, I have seen a great deal of it, and know of trees 

 which were loaded down with it, and died because of neglect. 



Mr. Custer: I have been growing little Blue Damson for eighteen 

 years, and it proved successful with me. More money in it than any other, 

 and I have never had black knot, except on one ti-ee brought from the 

 other side of Columbus. I cut it off and burned it, and had never had 

 any since. There is little black knot in our part of the State. 



Mr. Little: What do you do when it comes on side of a limb? 



Mr. Custer: Cut it off and burn it. 



Mr. Howser: I never saw but one tree that had knot on it, and that 

 was a peach tree about as large as my arm. Mr. Denny was showing 

 me the orchard and wanted to know what to do with it, and I told him 

 to cut it out with a chisel. 



Mr. Custer: In parts of Ohio where I got my trees, they have had black 

 knot so bad that they had to destroy all their trees. 



Mr. Hdbbs: Professor Beach, what is your experience in cutting knots 

 off level with branch and applying remedies? 



